Instagram suffers another world outage, users unable to log-in.

Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform Instagram
suffered yet one more outage today morning with users reporting issues in logging-in
and getting their
feeds. Many others
have highlighted the fact that
their feeds weren’t getting refreshed. Instagram had reported a similar outage
in April this year.
The bad news for
Instagram comes a day after Google services and Snapchat
were reportedly down within the U.S.A. due to network congestion.

According to Down Detector, users in India, US, UK, South America, Japan
and Australia were affected. The
issue was first noticed at around 9:00 am (IST).
Not much is known concerning the reason for
the outage or its current status
because the company has not yet issued any statement. Instagram’s Twitter account has no
post related to the
outage.

Earlier in April 2019, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down
globally. A month earlier too Facebook faced its longest disruption of over 24 hours. Due to the lack of any official answers yet, many conspiracy
theories have begun circulating especially the ones pointing towards DDoS attacks. In April, Facebook had blamed the server
configuration change for
the outage. The frequency with which Instagram is going down these days, the DDoS attacks appear to be a reasonable explanation.

The purpose of the DDoS attacks is to bring
down the site. DDoS attacks
are a sort of denial of
service attack where the
targeted web server is
flooded with unusual traffic,
preventing the regular traffic from reaching the destination. Facebook is a huge draw for hackers. In 2018, hackers were successful in accessing
personal data, including phone numbers and email
addresses, of 3 crore Facebook users.

Meanwhile, users took to other social media sites to voice
their frustration.
One tweeted: “Snapchat down yesterday and
Instagram down today, will Twitter or Facebook be
tomorrow?”